Yeah... Interestingly enough, the German POWs in the US were treated far better than the US Citizens of Japanese descent. Look up the history. The German POWs were essentially free to come and go; the local farmers would use them for labor and on occasion they would drive themselves to the farm and back.... The US citizens, just a few miles away, were behind guard towers and concertina wire, with little to no access to the outside.
It's pretty darn close to that. The problem is that the boondocks are that... Boondocks.
When your base population is 1 person per square mile, there may only be 1 law enforcement officer for hundreds of square miles. How exactly do you propose to enforce those rules?
You can lose your gun, your vehicle, and all your gear for certain violations. You can go to jail for others. the problem is that you can't afford to police everything.
I moved to Oregon from South Carolina... Arguably two of the most "redneck" states out there, except may be Idaho. What most city slickers don't realize about Oregon is that a lot of it is nature. With animals. Real animals. That will eat you.
The project I manage now is sandwiched between urban core and a rock quarry. Before the excavators moved in, we had a pack of coyotes hunting the area (and they'll be back as soon as we're done). When I hike, I regularly come across bear and cougar tracks and cougar kills. There are at least 3 cougars that share one of the urban parks with thousands of visitors. It's not unusual for trails to be posted with cougar sightings.
(For those of you who don't know, a cougar is a large cat, also known as a mountain lion.)
Many rural governments advise new residents to purchase a firearm to protect their property from assorted flesh-eating critters.
We also have a house in Europe, in the Czech Republic, which also has a long tradition of sport shooting and hunting. The wildlife is nowhere near as wild or abundant there.
So.... Yes there is a gun culture here in Oregon. The vast majority of gun owners here are responsible. Most of us responsible types stay away from the areas where the signs are shot up and people shoot at beer cans. There is a small minority of idiots. How's that different from any other population?
The only problem is that these idiots have guns. Darwin takes care of a few every year.
1. She's cute. 2. She has an attitude. 3. She has an audience. 4. She can come to the US, get a gig on a radio rant show and make good money. She doesn't even have to read the news, just make sh*t up about 'the bad guys'. 5. Profit!
Get a lawyer first. There's all sorts of things you can say that will screw you. Don't go talking to your employer without talking to a lawyer first.
I say this as a former business owner; the first thing I would have done as your employer is consult our attorney about the situation. If you request a meeting, chances are they will have corporate counsel there. I would have been acting on legal advice; so should you.
Hehe... Neither is it mine. I just know a bit of medieval history from being a dungeon master back in my D&D days.... (And I did leave out the "disembowel and emasculate" part of "draw"....)
It's "Hang, draw, and quarter". They would "hang" you but not drop you as they do in modern times, so your neck would not break, and presumably you would still be somewhat alive after hanging. Then they would "draw" you - take you down, and then they would tie each limb to a horse, and have the horses pull you apart. That's the "quarter" part. Sometimes they would cut the sinews in your hips and shoulders to make it easier for the horses to pull you apart.
Somewhat akin to working with word, but less painful.
I think you missed the point. The tread isn't the issue; the pictures are copyrighted by someone. You can't go on-line, scarf a whole bunch of pictures off the web, and then use them to conduct your business.
I can't do that with images, music, or anything else, and neither can any other agency. Otherwise, I could just download all the music in the world, and claim that I am building a database for future use in identifying stolen music.
I lived in Beaufort, SC, in 1992, when a small local church decided to become world famous - by creating confrontations with anyone and everyone who walked by. It was a ridiculous zoo; they'd bus these "preachers" in from all over the state, and have them arrested.
Eventually they made the NYT (along with CNN, ABC, etc):
These idiots would grab bypassers and scream at them that they would go to hell. Really, they'd grab kids and yell at them; they grabbed a 20 year old female runner friend of mine and yelled at her that she would burn in hell for being a runner: "all runners go to hell!"
Anyway, there's always some back-woods idiot who finds a way to get in the paper. Kudos to Rackspace for closing off one of this guy's means of spreading his nonsense.
You've never seen a passenger throw a hissy fit, have you? Or start screaming? The FAs may be useless until the shit hits the fan, and then there aren't enough of them. They aren't there to serve drinks; they are there to keep the passengers in line.
I have 2 pilots in my family; it's hard, stressful work that takes a toll on their families and their own health.
Eliminating more staff is not the way to go. Do you really want the cheapest, least experienced person at the helm and in the cabin? That's fine when the weather is fine. Try it in a typhoon, when the plane is bucking, the passengers are puking and screaming, and then tell me they can eliminate staff.
Well, if people didn't have sex, we wouldn't have had the current crop of corrupt bankers and politicians, now, would we?
You gotta remember that the pilgrims didn't come to the US to "practice religious freedom". They got kicked out of Europe for being too puritanical. From the beginning the US has been at war with sex and "indecency".
It amazed me that you could show the most awful slasher flick and at most get an R rating but typically get a PG-13. But if you so much as showed a few seconds of a tit that was R for sure. And male frontal nudity was an X.
I've done disaster response. While robots may have some very limited applications, dogs and eyeballs and boots are better. You need lots of them and each one has to be thinking and looking on their own.
You are looking for survivors and making decisions that are not quantifiable at all. It'll be a long time before we can send out a "swarm" of robots into a disaster area and have them work as well as a trained dog or a trained SAR person.
It's a very, very cool front end. Where does it get the data in the real world?
I'm running a construction job with 3 contractors. Today they had 8 excavators, 3 backhoes, half-dozen off-road trucks, a water tanker, a vactor truck, and probably a few things I've forgotten. They were hammering up concrete, ripping down a building, tearing up a dam, and moving an incredible amount of dirt. They still managed to dump the dirt in the wrong place.
Especially when the next case will argue that you, in your person, no longer have an expectation of privacy, and therefore the police can insert a tracking device subcutaneously, without your consent and against your will.
As soon as you leave your barricaded door, unless you are rich enough to have body guards, your person can be touched by anyone. Therefore the police the right to insert a tracking device into your person without a warrant.
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Yeah... Interestingly enough, the German POWs in the US were treated far better than the US Citizens of Japanese descent. Look up the history. The German POWs were essentially free to come and go; the local farmers would use them for labor and on occasion they would drive themselves to the farm and back.... The US citizens, just a few miles away, were behind guard towers and concertina wire, with little to no access to the outside.
Yup, because they're idiots. One day they'll shoot out a high voltage line and fry themselves.
But in the meantime a lot of us responsible types get tarred with the same coating of idiocy. That's the part I don't like.
It's pretty darn close to that. The problem is that the boondocks are that... Boondocks.
When your base population is 1 person per square mile, there may only be 1 law enforcement officer for hundreds of square miles. How exactly do you propose to enforce those rules?
You can lose your gun, your vehicle, and all your gear for certain violations. You can go to jail for others. the problem is that you can't afford to police everything.
I moved to Oregon from South Carolina... Arguably two of the most "redneck" states out there, except may be Idaho. What most city slickers don't realize about Oregon is that a lot of it is nature. With animals. Real animals. That will eat you.
The project I manage now is sandwiched between urban core and a rock quarry. Before the excavators moved in, we had a pack of coyotes hunting the area (and they'll be back as soon as we're done). When I hike, I regularly come across bear and cougar tracks and cougar kills. There are at least 3 cougars that share one of the urban parks with thousands of visitors. It's not unusual for trails to be posted with cougar sightings.
(For those of you who don't know, a cougar is a large cat, also known as a mountain lion.)
Many rural governments advise new residents to purchase a firearm to protect their property from assorted flesh-eating critters.
We also have a house in Europe, in the Czech Republic, which also has a long tradition of sport shooting and hunting. The wildlife is nowhere near as wild or abundant there.
So.... Yes there is a gun culture here in Oregon. The vast majority of gun owners here are responsible. Most of us responsible types stay away from the areas where the signs are shot up and people shoot at beer cans. There is a small minority of idiots. How's that different from any other population?
The only problem is that these idiots have guns. Darwin takes care of a few every year.
I remember the concepts for the 747... Piano lounge upstairs with a bar. Private cabins. Luxurious accomodations.
Didn't take long for the 747 to become a large cattle car. Any bets on how long the luxury will last?
Depends on the demographic you want to attract.
Well, the next concept is for a double decker, with flight attendants wearing miniskirts and no panties. Lower deck seats cost double.
1. She's cute.
2. She has an attitude.
3. She has an audience.
4. She can come to the US, get a gig on a radio rant show and make good money. She doesn't even have to read the news, just make sh*t up about 'the bad guys'.
5. Profit!
Nor is there any other single fixed immovable point.
You obviously missed out on the liberal/conservative diatribes in the US lately.
Get a lawyer first. There's all sorts of things you can say that will screw you. Don't go talking to your employer without talking to a lawyer first.
I say this as a former business owner; the first thing I would have done as your employer is consult our attorney about the situation. If you request a meeting, chances are they will have corporate counsel there. I would have been acting on legal advice; so should you.
GET A LAWYER!
Hehe... Neither is it mine. I just know a bit of medieval history from being a dungeon master back in my D&D days.... (And I did leave out the "disembowel and emasculate" part of "draw"....)
It's "Hang, draw, and quarter". They would "hang" you but not drop you as they do in modern times, so your neck would not break, and presumably you would still be somewhat alive after hanging. Then they would "draw" you - take you down, and then they would tie each limb to a horse, and have the horses pull you apart. That's the "quarter" part. Sometimes they would cut the sinews in your hips and shoulders to make it easier for the horses to pull you apart.
Somewhat akin to working with word, but less painful.
I think you missed the point. The tread isn't the issue; the pictures are copyrighted by someone. You can't go on-line, scarf a whole bunch of pictures off the web, and then use them to conduct your business.
I can't do that with images, music, or anything else, and neither can any other agency. Otherwise, I could just download all the music in the world, and claim that I am building a database for future use in identifying stolen music.
Doesn't work that way.
Ireland, Oklahoma City bomber, most white supremacist groups, former Yugoslavia, anti-abortionists.... Need I go on?
Any extremist position can be backed by a selective reading of your favorite religious text. Hate is not a Muslim monopoly.
I lived in Beaufort, SC, in 1992, when a small local church decided to become world famous - by creating confrontations with anyone and everyone who walked by. It was a ridiculous zoo; they'd bus these "preachers" in from all over the state, and have them arrested.
Eventually they made the NYT (along with CNN, ABC, etc):
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/14/us/preachers-take-shouting-match-with-city-to-court.html
These idiots would grab bypassers and scream at them that they would go to hell. Really, they'd grab kids and yell at them; they grabbed a 20 year old female runner friend of mine and yelled at her that she would burn in hell for being a runner: "all runners go to hell!"
Anyway, there's always some back-woods idiot who finds a way to get in the paper. Kudos to Rackspace for closing off one of this guy's means of spreading his nonsense.
Sounds like they are pseudo-security personnel at this point and that seems ludicrous when you can have real security personnel.
So you replace X FAs who have specific flight training with X cops who don't? I guess I don't understand where the savings part comes in.
Unless you're saying that X FAs can be replaced with X/2 cops, who will then beat any out-of-line passenger with nightsticks?
I'm not sure I want to fly on your airline....
You've never seen a passenger throw a hissy fit, have you? Or start screaming? The FAs may be useless until the shit hits the fan, and then there aren't enough of them. They aren't there to serve drinks; they are there to keep the passengers in line.
I have 2 pilots in my family; it's hard, stressful work that takes a toll on their families and their own health.
Eliminating more staff is not the way to go. Do you really want the cheapest, least experienced person at the helm and in the cabin? That's fine when the weather is fine. Try it in a typhoon, when the plane is bucking, the passengers are puking and screaming, and then tell me they can eliminate staff.
Ahh... You begin to understand, grasshopper.
OK, you got 33 miners trapped underground in Chile, and 2 million displaced in Pakistan due to flooding.
Where do you put your resources?
Well, if people didn't have sex, we wouldn't have had the current crop of corrupt bankers and politicians, now, would we?
You gotta remember that the pilgrims didn't come to the US to "practice religious freedom". They got kicked out of Europe for being too puritanical. From the beginning the US has been at war with sex and "indecency".
It amazed me that you could show the most awful slasher flick and at most get an R rating but typically get a PG-13. But if you so much as showed a few seconds of a tit that was R for sure. And male frontal nudity was an X.
I've done disaster response. While robots may have some very limited applications, dogs and eyeballs and boots are better. You need lots of them and each one has to be thinking and looking on their own.
You are looking for survivors and making decisions that are not quantifiable at all. It'll be a long time before we can send out a "swarm" of robots into a disaster area and have them work as well as a trained dog or a trained SAR person.
It's a very, very cool front end. Where does it get the data in the real world?
I'm running a construction job with 3 contractors. Today they had 8 excavators, 3 backhoes, half-dozen off-road trucks, a water tanker, a vactor truck, and probably a few things I've forgotten. They were hammering up concrete, ripping down a building, tearing up a dam, and moving an incredible amount of dirt. They still managed to dump the dirt in the wrong place.
A webcam http://www.ci.springfield.or.us/millrace/images/ww.jpg and a cell phone do more for me than this.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's cool as hell, but GIGO applies to this in spades.
I'd love to see a real application for this; not a simulation.
My wife uses XFCE; she's not a techie. In her words: "I don't see the difference".
For most people a computer consists of a browser and possibly an email client, although that's less and less.
Add an mp3 downloader app and you've got about 99% of home users covered.
Put a speaker at the focal point.
Aim it at your neighbor's house.
Play recordings of devil worship, or islamic call to prayer, a Tammy Faye Baker show, or whatever else.
Watch your neighbor get taken away by the men in white coats.
Especially when the next case will argue that you, in your person, no longer have an expectation of privacy, and therefore the police can insert a tracking device subcutaneously, without your consent and against your will.
As soon as you leave your barricaded door, unless you are rich enough to have body guards, your person can be touched by anyone. Therefore the police the right to insert a tracking device into your person without a warrant.